Thoughts on content, design, architecture, functions and talent for the digital age

Michelle Ferrier

Dr. Michelle Ferrier is an associate professor in the School of Communications at Elon University in North Carolina. She is the founder and publisher of LocallyGrownNews.com, a site dedicated to good, local food.

So instead of starting by looking at the “stuff” that’s going into the box, we get to think first about people and community and function. We can choose a CMS by how well it can help users, consumers and content creators build our online community.”

Not that either of us has found one yet that suits our needs, but she dreams big about what she’s looking for in discreet, manageable chunks for those developer friends among us. Her list, bulleted (see her post for the details):

Flexibility

Friendly

Social

Comments=Co-Authors

Wikis

Email/RSS/SMS

Blogs

Widget Embeds

Taxonomy

Who/What/When Calendar

Touchy Feely

Bilingual

Do we still have any developer friends after this list? Then take a look at CharlotteAnne’s post cause we’re headed to Emerald City. And there are enough of us out here traveling this yellow brick road to make building such a robust CMS thing realistic…and yes, profitable. Any takers?